Basting every curve and point was painstaking work that left her with pinpricked fingertips and an aching neck, so she took occasional breaks to stretch and to rest her eyes by looking around the garden or the shaded lanai, their future classroom.

Such a testy bunch the right-bloggers have become, the triumphalism of their post 9/11 Victor Davis Hanson high noon tipping over and shattering into a thousand bitter shards, pinpricked with anger and paranoia.